In hope of helping his son’s Jeb Bush struggling
presidential campaign, George Bush Sr and former president George W. Bush have
been campaigning behind the presidential candidate in hopes of bringing the
Bush family’s name once again behind the Oval office, but some experts believe
this kind of incident could cost him the race.

During the fundraiser, a man in the crowd raised a
strange question which led to an even more surprising response by the former
president and CIA director. The man asked George Bush Sr when the US government
would tell Americans the truth about UFOs, to which he responded: “Americans
can’t handle the truth” before the questioning was briefly halted by organizers
of the event.

The man that asked the question has been identified as
Adam Guelch, an active member of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which credits
itself as being the world’s oldest and largest UFO phenomenon investigative
body.

Oddly enough, it is not the first time George Bush Sr
has had a controversial opinion on the UFO subject as a similar
incident occurred on March 7, 1988, during a trip to a George Bush for
President Rally in Rogers, Arkansas.

The to-be president was then asked, in the advent that
he became president, if he would tell Americans the truth about the existence
of UFOs, to which Bush replied: “I am very careful in public life about dealing
with classified information” he told the reporter.

James Adder, journalist for the Arkansas
Globe at the time, also asked about Bush’s knowledge about the UFO
phenomena,to which Bush respondeded (before ending the interview):

” I know some. I know a fair amount”

A loss of cognitive functions, says a medical
expert

One medical expert believes that George Bush Sr., who
is in a frail state of health, might be suffering from a neurological disorder
such as Alzheimer's, which could explain his weird comment.

“At the venerable age of 91, it is quite normal to
suffer from a loss of cognitive functions. Clear symptoms are a difficulty to
express yourself coherently, loss of memory, dementia. This is possibly
the root cause for the awkward comments”explains
neurologist John O’Briar.

A Jeb Bush campaign spokesman told reporters George
Bush Sr.’s comments “did not reflect in any way the opinions of
presidential candidate Jeb Bush” and that Jeb Bush supporters “are
entitled to their own views on a variety of subjects.”